2007 NCER General Call for Papers
Goal
The goal of the conference sessions is to provide an opportunity to share ideas on the topics listed below. We encourage original thinking on topics as detailed as technical innovations and as broad as ethics and robotics.
The General Call for Papers is directed at students, teachers, mentors and parents of robotics’ teams. Those people in college and beyond who would like their paper to be rigorously reviewed should respond to our Robotics Education Research Call for Papers (link coming soon!). Please note - this call has different deadlines then the General Call for Papers.
Papers can be accepted for the conference in one of three ways:
- For publication in the conference proceedings and to be given as a talk during the conference
- For publication in the conference proceedings and to be displayed as a poster during the Autonomous Robot Showcase
- For publication in the conference proceedings only
Determinations as to how papers will be accepted will be made by the program committee. If you would prefer to have your paper considered for the conference proceedings only or as a poster at the showcase, please make that indication in the body of your email submission.
Review Criteria
Papers will be reviewed for clarity and relevance to educational robotics.
Possible content areas for papers:
Content areas for all audiences include, but are not limited to:
- Innovations with a robotics kit
- Best practices in robotics competitions
- Project management/team development
- Applications of science, technology, engineering and math to robotics
- How I used math in robotics
- How I used science in robotics
- Science and/or math experiments with a robotics kit
- Technical papers (might include color tracking technology, programming topics, XBC technology, etc.)
- General topics, such as assistive robotics and household robotics
- Ethics and robotics
- Summer robotics programs
- Robotics clubs
Content areas for educators include, but are not limited to:
- Curriculum and lesson plans that utilize kit parts or concepts relevant to robotics education
- Best practices in robotics education (organization of team, organization of equipment, planning, funding, involving administration and parents, team leadership, team meetings, etc.)
- Robotics courses (design, implementation and national/state standards)
- Non-competition uses for a robotics kit
- Robotics and state standards
- Project management/team development
- Attracting more girls and underrepresented populations to engineering and technology
- Overcoming challenging elements in team management
- Techniques for ensuring participation from all team members
Miscellaneous topics:
- Robotics clubs
- Robotics partnerships with Universities
- Summer robotics programs
Guidelines for Submissions:
Deadline for papers: 12:00 pm CDT on June 4, 2007
Notification of accepted papers: June 13, 2007
- Review the "example paper" at our website for important information about paper submission
- Submit your paper via email attachment to: conference@kipr.org
- Use subject line: Paper Submission
- No paper submissions will be accepted via fax
- If you do not wish to present your paper as a talk at NCER, but would prefer to present it as a poster at the showcase, please indicate that in the body of your email submission
- Notification of receipt will be emailed to the first (or designated) author soon after receipt
- If members of the program committee require edits in order for your paper to be accepted, you will have until June 20th to submit the changes. Edited papers not returned before this date cannot be accepted for NCER.
All papers become property of KISS Institute, although authorship will always be acknowledged. Proceedings will be published as a CD, which will be available at the conference.
The submitting author must include the following text in their email that accompanies the submission of this paper:
By submitting this paper the authors confirm that the material contained in the paper is original and/or properly credited work and that the copyright of the paper is being (upon acceptance of the paper to the NCER conference) transferred from the authors to KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR). KIPR grants authors the right to distribute their paper, electronically or by hard copy, or to submit the paper for republication provided that all such copies of the paper contain a footnote on the first page of the paper that states: “(c) 2007 KIPR. First published in the Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Educational Robotics.”
Format:
All papers must meet the following formatting criteria:
- 6 or fewer pages
- Submit in .pdf format (.doc and .rtf formats will only be accepted if submitter has received approval from KISS Institute in advance)
- Times New Roman Font
- 12 point type
- 1" margins
- Please do not number pages
- Photographs and diagrams are encouraged and should be embedded in the text
- Author information must appear in the top left corner of the paper in this format:
- First Line - title of paper
- Second Line - author name(s)
- Third Line - affiliation of author(s): school name for all and email address for submitters over the age of 18
- The title should appear again below the author information, in bold, centered
- Proper citation of sources is required
- Quicktime or MPEG videos, not to exceed 10 megabytes, may be submitted as supporting material for the paper